PEOPLE: MONTH #001
"photographing at first my dear chinese teacher in shanghai who was so kind to us and so helpful although we never did our homework and at last left china and remembering her smiling but without teeth also photographing a chinese colleague from tongji university who made fun of me when he realized i was more of an artist than a designer photographing also our dear spanish friend tiziana who had silicon bubs and was later dumped by her husband leaving her alone with little otto who attended school with august in shanghai and also meeting other spanish speaking expats there working mostly at the world expo allowing myself to party with them one night although we never hang out with expats in the end also photographing my very dear friend philip who whom i sang many a karaoke at fuxin park with other local chinese although he did not wish his photograph to be circulated as he had issues with the cops in hong kong where he worked as a detective"
PEOPLE: MONTH #002
"photographing at first the swedish parents of a classmate of august in shanghai to work for the swedish pavilion of the world expo with the woman particularly fond of my project but myself trying to minimize so as not to anger my wife and then also photographing my tai-chi teacher and the manager of our gym by the american embassy photographing also a tibetan guy i met at a restaurant where he was dancing but meeting him after the death of his mother caused by an earthquake which made him cut his beautiful hair and loose a lot of weight also photographing a talented chinese designer i worked with and whom i kept in touch through the years taking occasional walks at night through the city and also photographing an elder i met in people's park who was captured by the japanese and learned english after he was rescued by the americans spending several days with him but then noticing some pictures of naked men in his shirt and also photographing the italian american teacher my son august had at his school in the mornings a guy who knew a lot of tricks but who was not very intelligent"
PEOPLE: MONTH #003
"photographing my boxing teacher and the italian guy with whom i used to box who was producing shopping bags to sell them cheap back in europe but also enjoyed writing poetry and also photographing some of my closest chinese students from tongji university like a girl with blue contact lenses who was very fond of me and a colleague but also the new york famous gallerist arthur solway who was recovering from cancer and had his gallery right opposite to my apartment building"
PEOPLE: MONTH #004
"mostly people met while in tokyo like a japanese contemporary artist i met previously at a festival inviting me for some kind of gathering but also an italian guy who used to play for the famous football team milan and later gave up his career due to the drugs he got introduced to while there and moving first to australia to then come to japan for a girl who broke his heart and trying to convince me to make a partnership with his to sell his mother cashmere products around the world but the also meeting other folk in our expensive hostel by yoyogi park such as an american guy with a young thai girlfriend making a lot of traveling to see his children back in the states and other folk met in parks dressing in costumes to at last make it back to sweden and there meeting alex mood trying to set back up the center for electronic art crack as well as meeting my norwegian friend japanese girlfriend amy"
PEOPLE: MONTH #005
"in kungsholmen seating by the water with my old friends celebrating the visit of panagiotis michalatos and talking there to the sister of jacek smolicki's roommate about her career in fashion before getting to know some girls also seating nearby us and then while in uppsala meeting some crazy performers coming there as part of a festival before going to mikael goralski's birthday party and meeting his polish looking brother and an another guest"
PEOPLE: MONTH #006
"in sweden at first in our countryside house meeting some people from uppsala like a couple with an italian guy teaching economics and his wife who could not really stand italians every time she made it there and then flying to jerusalem to volunteer for a dutch foundation helping palestinian teenagers and meeting many of the volunteers especially from poland like a girl who had an affair with a local palestinian called rami who was most adventurous and apparently got shot trying to climb the main temple to put the palestinian flag on top and following him on several adventures with the other volounteers walking on top of the herodotus old at night and eating bread with humus on top of roofs of the market during the day"
PEOPLE: MONTH #007
"still meeting folk while in jerusalem like a palestinian teenager attending my filming workshops and a quite orthodox jewish cook giving jacek and i a ride to tel aviv also meeting another palestinian with blue eyes and some americans also volountering for the dutch associations like the very founder who has to make it through the west bank daily at last also meeting a father with kids on the bus becoming friends while in the west bank"
PEOPLE: MONTH #008
"more palestinian young folk met shooting a movie with them in the west bank about the friday protest trying to break in the jewish occupied land and photographing their faces now during the action with tear gases and plastic bullets shot by the israeli militaries but also meeting some nice israeli folk coming in support of the palestinian cause"
PEOPLE: MONTH #009
"more folk met while volunteering in israel like some northern europeans also traveling across the country but also folk met while in tel aviv unable to go anywhere due to the sabbath and at last hitchhiking up to akko meeting some israeli soldiers while camping with my polish friend jacek on a beach but also a palestinian getting quite upset of the fact that his relative lands were all expropriated by the jews and at last making it back to jerusalem getting to know a very kind hearted palestinian ironsmith giving me all sort of presents including a shirt he himself made and sharing with him the struggle of trying to keep in the city and in his house with jews trying to steal it from him and his family"
PEOPLE: MONTH #010
"still in israel hanging out with my palestinian students and beginning to make together more of fiction film depicting the life of a jewish and a palestinian boy becoming friends but then getting apart as they grew into their own identities and also meeting more volunteers like me and some more chilled students only wanting to dpend time with us and some very angry about the israeli"
PEOPLE: MONTH #011
"making it back to scandinavia for some time in the summer and meeting there some film makers and artists before moving all the way to north america with my wife and our son august and with him exploring very much the boston area getting to meet interesting people such as a young poet we met on the way to the beach or a random guy we met at the playground in the near of harvard and sharing with them my project before making it alone with august to new york and there meeting the editor girlfriend of my old artist friend brian house"
PEOPLE: MONTH #012
"in cambridge massachusetts portraying at first the great old chinese man who taught me tai-chi in a basketball field after meeting him once meeting him on the clock every week learning thee new movements every time and also photographing my korean neighbour who depite his medical carreer at the mit university kept on saying prays with his family every morning and meeting an italian researcher but also a swiss one sort of courting my swedish wife and taking her to shop and so forth with me not really carrying about it and getting to work for the famous jewish polish artist and professor wodiczko photographing him after several of our meetings discussing a show about an amarican raid into an afghan wedding and also photographing one of his other probably very rich assistants from harvard and later also photographing a turkish researcher also working at the mit with whom we had much to discuss"
PEOPLE: MONTH #013
"a quite powerful moment meeting in montreal meeting for the first time my biological father after more than two decades and photographing the canadian swiss couple hosting me in their cheap and big apartment studio where they worked on animations with my all time friend davide despite later playing a nasty trick on him and getting him out of the company and also photographing my fellow colleagues at mit university including the italian girlfriend of a colleague who was very fond of my project and photographing an homosexual professor also quite connected with the mit and likely very smart meeting him at a gallery show and later meeting him again to discuss about a rossellini film he watched with his young boyfriend in naples and also photographing my son's italian teacher at his american highschool finding her with quite an heart but also very intrusive and demanding especially after her divorce forcing me to edit films for her and at last meeting the very nice italian american artist catherine d'ignazio letting our kids play together in cambridge and finding her most kind and helpful later also getting her to buy one of my books with drawings while visiting the netherlands and a bit loosing her after she started a more academic career with some feminist angles to it"
PEOPLE: MONTH #014
"folk still met while in the boston area like several folk from the mit university but also the nurse girlfriend of a researcher there named audrey with chinese descendants but raised in indonesia and totally in love with our son august coming even to play with him after work and also meeting some americans in the weekend taking excursions out of the city and meeting mario an old italian man from avellino who first immigrated to argentina to then immigrate as a young man to north america settling in our street in east cambridge and getting to meet him quite some times going even in his house for a tea learning about him with his broken italian and with quite a negative view of american politics meeting later also another italian from rimini who became a quite famous researchers back in northern italy off and on being in touch with him to see if we could spark a collaboration that never happened"
PEOPLE: MONTH #015
"meeting some upper class young men going to a french private school in boston trying to conduct interviews with them for a research i made for mit university on the sharing on social media of tv series and also meeting a quite nice american researcher helping me in the project feeling a bit sad about her love relationship with an iraqi with heart problems and also meeting a quite famous researcher and writer named amaranth getting to share our project and becoming quite much friends for the time we lived in cambridge also getting to know about her family history with her grandmother escaping the holocaust and understanding her quite reach status with her boyfriend working for what became the richest man on earth and meeting a german researcher related also to mit university and then mostly meeting other americans on the street like a mulatto guy whose father was sicilian"
PEOPLE: MONTH #016
"prior meeting a chinese tourist with whom i had a chat roaming around the desolated east part of boston during a very cold day with my kid and meeting a girl from milan with huge dogs she was dog sitting getting to know later her and her spanish artist boyfriend filled with headaches but also the gay owner of the dogs trying to seduce me by saying what an art collector he was meeting also another art collector but also a black ietnam war veteran throwing himself on the street and giving him a hand and also money before also meeting the rather exotic boyfriend of my old grrek friend and harvard teacher panagiotis"
PEOPLE: MONTH #017
"quite plain month spent in boston meeting mostly researchers at the university like some italians and also meeting the jewish mother of my polish friend's girlfriend who came to visit us and was very happy to see our little son"
PEOPLE: MONTH #018
"convincing my wife in the end to take a small holiday outside the united states and going to puerto rico where an old students i had in stockholm arranged an apartment for us not too far from the infamous la perla neighborhood and nonetheless enjoying the old city and meeting many artists related to my students like a collective organizing quite some work against the constant dependency from united states for even vegetables they could grow in the island and also meeting the puppeteer boyfriend of the main leader and the actual boyfriend of my student traveling a bit the island with him and getting to know is quite good installation making a pyramid in mexico city using the many cigarettes buds he found at the pyramids and returning to boston meeting a quite cool italian american babysitter from buffalo city and a curator with whom we failed to orfanize an exhibit in a church together also with amaranth"
PEOPLE: MONTH #019
"at some sort of intellectual gatherings organized by a young professor at the mit meeting amaranth boyfriend who did not make it to be a film maker and turned into a profitable career as a programmer before meeting other italian and an iraqi harvard researcher with heart issues but also quite an interesting local artist diung conceptual work related to shipping containers but never getting to exhibit with him also understanding how hard is to become established even in the united states and later also meeting other eople joining the intellectual mit gatherings"
PEOPLE: MONTH #020
"meeting a intersting cuban researcher based in harvard who got quite interested about my project and to whom i gave an introduction about my memory cathedral and then also meeting other people with some italian background like a man who had quite some severe health issues but did his best to take me and my son for boat excursions out in some sort of prison island off the boston coast and even wanted us to take us on a small plane to the isaldn where the american president chills in the summer later also meeting another african american with some sicilian background as well as a couple leaving right opposite to us with an half polish and half northern italian guy and his half sicilian and half nordic wife sort of insiting to meet up but with their wild kids making the whole thin impossible and over time trying to avoid going to their places eaten up by squirrel with much of a fat brunch i gladly tried to avoid"
PEOPLE: MONTH #021
"hanging out with more interns at mit such as zoe a jewish american girl doing quite some etnographic research together for our boss but also a funny french guy with a strong accent and beside meeting up with another italian researcher also meeting a brazilian couple also involved with mit and quite intereseted about my project later on also getting to know more wayne an american local artist coming to a small exhibit i improvised without any money in a spanish friend studio and there also meeting up with other guests"
PEOPLE: MONTH #022
"still in boston meeting other artists at the small show i made with an american lady being very impressed with my drawings wearing even gloves to look through them but also mit colleagues like a greek researcher always stuck in the end of our dark office seating at his desk and taking pills to keep up with such an inhuman condition especially considering his wife and kid being still in greece and later photographing people i met organizing interviews of american italians for the university"
PEOPLE: MONTH #023
"meeting more fol at the mit university like several young people collaborating with me for the project i started to lead there like a young french guy who turned out to be the son of the girlfriend of our boss and dome freshmen but also the secretary of our department whom i never got so much along with"
PEOPLE: MONTH #024
"still interacting with more folk to make a documentary about american italians in boston and siding up with a young filmmaker very obsessed about women but also quite a few italian assistants mostly from the south and meeting some quite important american italians for interviews such as the rich owner of a big pizza chain living in a fancy villa west of the city"
PEOPLE: MONTH #025
"more american italians working for the mit university documentary celebrating the anniversary of the italian unification but also getting to know a girl sent over by my aunt to look after august with the school coming to an end and both my girlfriend and i getting busy at the university and meeting a quite intrusive colombian woman keeping who wanted to invite to her house later trying to avoid her"
PEOPLE: MONTH #026
"still meeting people at work at mit university but also travel around boston meeting more american italians for my documentary getting to know more interesting folk such as a quite serious professor and a succesful rich couple also living in a villa out of the city"
PEOPLE: MONTH #027
"meeting the grandparents of an indian kids oftern playing with august in the playground of our east cambridge apartment and then also getting to photograph the nice rockabilly artist assisting me with some ceramic projects i did for harvard university using my trash collages and later also getting to photograph the american italian mayor of boston i interviewed along with his american italian assistants"
PEOPLE: MONTH #028
"people met in new york city during a long trip i took with my school friend alessandro who came to visit us staying in our apartment for free and also traveling with him to montreal first to meet my father for the last time photographing his french jewish girlfriend and then traveling to toronto meeting some nice people there before in the end making it back to stockholm and at a vernisage meeting an italian jewler and her hing kong business partner"
PEOPLE: MONTH #029
"meeting more people during the stockholm vernisage such as an hardcore anarchist from rome and photographing them under the lights of the improvised dancing floor later also meeting other artists like quite a cool greek guy much more thorough than all the other artists in the stockholm scene"
PEOPLE: MONTH #030
"still meeting folk in the social mingling of the swedish capitol like the head of jacek working for the ministry of the baltic countries but also some friends met at an italian friend's birthday and folk met at a more philosophical debates like a parisian art critic"
PEOPLE: MONTH #031
"in stockholm been invited by a curator to meet another curator from a photography museum in austria and in italy meeting a new friend joining the group of my old high school friends and there also meeting at a dinner the son of an old family friend who became a motorcycle champion and also meeting the venetian boyfriend of my half sister who got into guys again after a period with a girlfriend and traveling by train to austria for a conference meeting an italian couple and other young people in my same hostel like an hong kong girl desperate for guys"
PEOPLE: MONTH #032
"meeting some scholars at an archaeology conference in vienna and particularly an american researcher who got quite fascinated with my idea of building a cathedral with my project data later back in the hostel meeting some new people like a quite ugly red head guy whose grandparents were from my region and emigrated to the surrounding of rome during fascism and now sought to find work in austria and on the train back to italy meeting other folk like an eastern european old artist and an italian who also got excited about my project before flying back to sweden and meeting more italians seeking a bit of luck there"
PEOPLE: MONTH #033
"back in stockholm living in the south of the city and meeting some students but also the swedish lady who sold us her car and later meeting an italian artist from rom =e working with gypsies in the italian capital and coming to stockholm from a presentation at the art council there and there also meeting other folk and back in our swedish neighborhood also meeting a sicilian man running a cafe who was completely obsessed with fucking women and in the end got a black one as a girlfriend"
PEOPLE: MONTH #034
"still in stockholm hanging out with artists there particularly from the art academy where i taught and at small gatherings organized by my polish friend jacek in his art collective near fargbabriken getting to know for example the colombian ivan with much stories and much talent but also much interest in girls knowing his little entourage"
PEOPLE: MONTH #035
"traveling back to italy and meeting for the first time the wife and husband of my relatives living in my grandmother's old villa in the countryside and seeing them in their new setting in modern houses built just outside the villa later also meeting a jewish guy traveling through italy and the hosband of my friend francesco's sister before also meeting a bump and helping him out with food and money and join the baptism of my sister's daughter meeting there her uncle considered by everyone a good for nothing and a nun who schooled my half sister"
PEOPLE: MONTH #036
"meeting the roman big and expansive mother-in-law of my twin sister and then traveling back to sweden helping out with money a black guy met on the train and once in stockholm meeting up for the first time an iranian friend of jacek who later made quite a career as a researcher in sweden yet always retaining quite an agressive attitude towards the country and meeting more artists of all ages and background in the evenings spent with jacek at various gatherings"